Monday, 2 January 2012

My Gaming Genesis.

Thought I'd do the odd retrospective post here, and today I'm going to share the first miniatures I ever bought. After being introduced into the hobby by my brother in law, he purchased Blood Bowl and I got to use his Human team. It was soon to be my 14th birthday and and the team that were released around then were the Skavenblight Scramblers. Rats? Playing fantasy football? Hell yeah! Around that time I had a pet rat, and it seemed like a good choice. Thought I'd do the odd retrospective post here, and today I'm going to share the first miniatures I ever bought. After being introduced into the hobby by my brother in law, he purchased Blood Bowl and I got to use his Human team. It was soon to be my 14th birthday and and the team that were released around then were the Skavenblight Scramblers. Rats? Playing fantasy football? Hell yeah! Around that time I had a pet rat, and it seemed like a good choice.

The mini's were awesome, the Thrower, Stormvermin, but my favourite was the hunched down gutter runner. and so Long Gone Lemmy was born. He's probably the highest scroing player I've ever had against my bro and until his untimely death he was the fastest rat in the old world. At least in my old world anyway. I bought several other teams after these, including Chaos, Dwarf, both Elf teams that were then available and later on the Orcs and Humans, but the Skaven are still close to my hobby heart. I still have them and they look pretty terrible!

And there are three members of the Crookback Critters. I got my first ever win with these guys but fair play, they look so worn, check the metal showing through!

3 comments:

Dark reapers back when GW Belfast opened in the early 90's odd, was a gift from my mum, then I found space marines and the imperium and never looked back regarding GW games (also saw and loved bloodbowl and the other specalist games!)